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Referee's report by William Napier Shaw, on a paper 'The agricultural value of rainfall in the tropics' by H Martin Leake

Reference number: RR/35/138

Date: 18 October 1927

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Sectional committee: Botany

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, but modifications should be made first.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 1928].

Endorsed on verso as received 19 October 1927.

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RR/35/138
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18 October 1927
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3 pages
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William Napier Shaw, Referee's report by William Napier Shaw, on a paper 'The agricultural value of rainfall in the tropics' by H Martin Leake, 18 October 1927, RR/35/138, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_35_138/referees-report-by-william-napier-shaw-on-a-paper-the-agricultural-value-of-rainfall-in-the-tropics-by-h-martin-leake, accessed on 10 November 2025

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